US Patent Issued to SUN PATENT TRUST on July 22 for "Image decoding method, image coding method, image decoding apparatus, image coding apparatus, and image coding and decoding apparatus" (Dutch, Turkish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,870, issued on July 22, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).

"Image decoding method, image coding method, image decoding apparatus, image coding apparatus, and image coding and decoding apparatus" was invented by Semih Esenlik (Nazilli, Turkey), Matthias Narroschke (Schaafheim, Germany) and Thomas Wedi (The Hague, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image includes a plurality of rows of largest coding units (LCUs). Encoding the image includes determining whether or not wavefront parallel processing is enabled, and partitioning the plurality of rows of LCUs to comprise a normal slice and a group of dependent slices. ...